23-07-2022 GAZA/ JERUSALEM: On May 11 2022, Shireen Abu Akleh, a renowned journalist in the Middle East who reported from the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel was brutally murdered by the Israeli forces but for Gaza-based journalist Wafa al Udainy, this was not the first time that journalists had been …
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23-07-2022 COLOMBO: The military in Sri Lanka has taken control of the presidential secretariat in Colombo, after what members of the country’s months-long protest movement described as a “brutal assault”. Soldiers overnight also destroyed tents at the adjacent GotaGoGama protest site, arrested several protest leaders and cordoned off the area …
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23-07-2022 TRIPOLI: Intense clashes have erupted between rival factions in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, with reports of dozens people killed amid growing concern that a political standoff could prompt renewed conflict. Clashes occurred early on Friday in the central district near the Radisson Blu hotel, an area where several government …
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21-07-2022 WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump “blazed a path of lawlessness and corruption” as he sought to overturn the results of the 2020 US election, the chairman of the House committee investigating last year’s attack on the Capitol said Thursday. Bennie Thompson, speaking at the televised prime-time finale of a series …
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22-07-2022 COLOMBO: Senior Sri Lankan lawmaker Dinesh Gunawardena was sworn in on Friday as the new prime minister, his office said, a day after the swearing-in of a new president as the Indian Ocean nation grapples with its worst economic crisis in decades. The event came just hours after security …
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22-07-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: A woman from India’s tribal minority, Droupadi Murmu, was elected as the country’s president Thursday with the backing of the ruling party, making her the first person from the marginalised community to occupy the top post. Murmu, who is from the Santhal tribe, secured the …
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22-07-2022 ATHENS: A shipwreck with ancient Greek treasures dating back to the Ptolemaic era of Egypt was recently discovered in the waters off Alexandria. The announcement was made by the European Institute for Underwater Archaeology (IEASM), led by researcher Franck Goddio. Located in the Bay of Abou Qir, in the …
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22-07-2022 Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Afghanistan Thursday agreed to make all-out efforts to launch a luxury bus service between Peshawar and Jalalabad and Quetta and Kandahar by end of August this year. During the three-day bilateral talks between the two sides, which concluded on Wednesday, it was also …
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22-07-2022 WASHINGTON: The US State Department has approved the potential sale of more than $2 billion worth of arms and equipment, including Patriot missiles for the Netherlands, cruise missiles for Australia, and oceanographic observation equipment for the United Arab Emirates, the Pentagon said on Thursday. The sale comes as governments …
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21-07-2022 WASHINGTON: The evolution of penguins from their flying seabird ancestors into the flightless denizens of marine environments from frigid Antarctica to the tropical Galapagos Islands is among the wonders of the animal kingdom. Researchers on Tuesday offered the most thorough examination to date of the history of penguins dating …
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